A Dangerous Lesson - Flash Fiction
Prompt: Thriller - Your character is on a road trip and comes across something unexpected.

A dangerous lesson
I couldn’t believe it. Here, I was driving in the middle of the night to attend to my mother’s needs. Needs?! She had asked me to help her out with the TV remote.
I could have said: ‘Is it alright if I come over tomorrow after work?’ Instead, I had promised to get there right away.
Twenty past eight - I …